Re: [matplotlib-devel] minor fixes to backend_ps

[Jochen V. <vo...@se...>]

Hello John,

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:00:48AM -0500, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Jochen" =3D=3D Jochen Voss <vo...@se...> writes:
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>     Jochen> None, I looked at the generated PS file out of curiosity
>     Jochen> and noticed that it does not follow the DSC conventions
>     Jochen> very well.  As this is just shuffling around comments it
>     Jochen> will probably not affect many applications.
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> Are there other noncompliant things in the matplotlib ps output that
> you are aware of, other than those you already fixed?
I think the horrible ones are fixed by now.

Minor issues:

The DSC spec states (at page 18): "If there is a section in
the document that corresponds to a particular comment, that comment
*must* be used to identify that section of the document."

=46rom reading this I would guess that all the "/something { ... } bind
def" statements and the included fonts should be inside a

    %%BeginPrologue
    %%EndPrologue

block.  But I didn't check this properly.

Then page 19 "strongly suggests" to use some headers like
"%%CreationDate" and "%%Title".

Page 70 of the SDC specification states that "%%BeginFont" and
"%%EndFont" are outdated and should be replaced by "%%BeginResource"
and "%%EndResource" statements.

All the best,
Jochen
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